The Best of Acephalous 2008

I want to keep the preface short and snappy because I'll be linking to it in the sidebar someday, but for the record, I can't believe how much I write (do it daily and it just accumulates) nor how much happened to me last year.  For some reason, I thought last year was largely drama-free, and it was . . . except for all the drama.  (I'll save my meta-thoughts about Proust and journals for another day.)

The Funny:

• Elderly Jews deserve our scorn.
• HA HA HA not funny.
• IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY CURTAINS FOR ME!
• In what follows I will be writing about signposts.
• I am become Hunter S. Thompson.
• This a finely crafted I wrote.
• What is it, with students and, with commas?
• Dawg, we is underscrewed.
• The Great California Earthquake Drill of 2008.
• Who will weep for the ugly duckling?
• "He longs longingly at his creation, his only wish that he could experience its birth again."
• Cylons have to eat too.
• "It is a descriptive word.  Its description is emotional and resonates to people who have emotions."
• .edoc eht kcarc ot sdrawkcab ti daeR
• Why this blog isn't good anymore.
• Nothing is ever merely anything.
• ASCII is too awesome.
• Interview with a candidate for many jobs (but winner of none).
• Never has the ding been so pleasant.
• Tell me everything I need to know to be an expert.
• "fine i dont hear from u soon u reget it[.]"
• A brief history of bobulates.
• Never let cats chat.
• A goal accomplished.
• SEK is hating Facebook.
• Then Socrates admits it was always about the hats.
• Who among us doesn't aspire to be the Manny Ramirez of academia?
• "I devoted my life to that study for nearly three weeks, but when I re-read it, I realized I was utterly full of shit."
• My best Charles Atlas imitation.

The Serious:

• This day in (fictional) history.
• Because who ever saw a black person swimming?
• Can anyone justify teaching Huck Finn?
• Liberal Fascism is a rank stupid book.
• No, really, Liberal Fascism is a rank stupid book.
• That thing I did with the voter registration data that got linked everywhere but was stupid dull writing-wise.
• The fine line between literary criticism and rank paranoia.
• That would be pretty damn important.
• Who really wrote that book the with the pResident's name on it?
• The first ever time I mentioned Watchmen on the blog.
• His death still bothers me.
• John Ziegler is an asshole.
• Two bits on The Wire.

The Still Seriously Sad:

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Comments

[John Protevi]

That last one is sad. Condolences. We have 5 of the beasts. Luckily ours are immortal and we won't have to be gutted one day.

[Adam Roberts]

Is this arranged in rank-order of funniness? Because if so I'll note that, funny though the 'Jew-in-Queue? Shoo!' post is, I laughed more at 'Dawh we is Underscrewed'.

[Adam Roberts]

Indeed I laughed so much I couldn't type 'Dawg' properly.